The Chinese startup DeepSeek released an AI reasoning model that appears to rival the abilities of a frontier model from OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT.

DeepSeek’s R1 AI model competes with OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model across math, coding, and science on an even playing field at 3% of the cost.

Some AI researchers hailed DeepSeek’s R1 as a breakthrough on the same level as DeepMind’s AlphaZero, a 2017 model that became superhuman at the board games Chess and Go by purely playing against itself and improving, rather than observing any human games.

The announcement confirms one of two rumors that circled the internet this week. The other was about superintelligence.

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R1, sent shockwaves through Wall Street, with major tech firms—most notably Nvidia—experiencing sharp stock declines.

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